Saturday, March 5, 2016

Cheshire Cat Cake for Melbourne Cake Club - March Madness

`Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat:
`we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’

`How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.

`You must be,’ said
the Cat, `or you wouldn’t have come here.’

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Our theme for the Melbourne Cake Club meeting this month was March Madness. I loved this theme - there are so many different directions you could take it.I was originally going to try my hand at a Mad Hatter Cake, but then realised that time was against me. Inspiration came when I was flicking through Fiona Cairns' Birthday Cakes for a good cake for carving. Fiona has an Alice's Tea Party section, with a big blue Alice Teapot, and some very colourful Cheshire Cat cupcakes. I decided to use the base lemon madeira cake that Fiona used for Alice's Teapot, but bake it in ordinary sandwich tins in a green, pink and purple zebra colour scheme:

Dear Gaye, an outstsanding design for a wonderful looking cake - you must have been really happy with the way it turned out! What a fun theme for the month of March and what a fun cake club!Ahve a lovely weekend!